Valentine's Day/Josh's Birthday

This year for Valentine's Day, I made these for the boys' classes.  We thought it would be fun to do something non candy for the Valentine's they pass out to their friends.  The bouncy balls glowed in the dark.

 My mom always put Whoppers on the door step and ran on Valentine's Day.  She would do it for each of us one at a time without fail.  I have such happy memories of how fun she made Valentine's Day, and Whoppers.  Josh and I always change up what we do for our boys, but this year I thought it would be fun to give them Whoppers like my mom always did.

 As Josh's birthday is on Valentine's Day, it is always a busy day for us.  This year we decided to give him breakfast in bed.  They boys made some great notes to give to him.

 Growing up we always had to make our own Valentine's boxes, Palmer is the only one of our boys who has ever had to do it.  He has only made two.  Click here to see the first one and the picture above is he second one.  He wanted a soccer field and we weren't sure how to do the goal.  I spent a few hours hot gluing yarn and Popsicle sticks together and I really do expect an upgrade on my old folks home for my efforts :)

 I helped this year with Hunter's Valentine's party.  I made 3-D Valentine's day cards with the kids.

 Josh is always so sweet to me on Valentine's Day.  I am a sucker for pink roses.  They smelled so heavenly.

Josh loves brownies so that is what he had for his birthday treat.

Later Josh and I headed to a movie and were pleased as punch that these were the seats.  Best way to see a movie!  It was a fun holiday.

Hunter's Report on France

 For his 2nd grade report at school each of the kids were supposed to pick a country to study and then do a report on.  Since Hunter has an Uncle on a mission in France, he was pretty excited to do his report on it.  

 He did such a good job!

We were pretty proud of this cute boy!

California Day 4

 Our last day of California was a little wet.  We didn't take our normal camera, so most of the pictures were from our phones.  

We got to go into the park early that day and happened to see a lot of characters at the entrance, which was good because we hadn't seen that many the other days we were there.  

 When the rain would start pouring, we would head into one of the rides that had a long wait time to miss the storm.  We lucked out and happened to be in the line to see Mickey Mouse when a lot of the other characters were ducking out of the storm too.

McKay always looks at Mickey Mouse like he is the neatest thing ever.  I love how the magic is all so real.

 Our favorite thing was definitely the new cars land.  The cars ride was pretty amazing, definitely my favorite and I think the boys would agree.

 The ride to see Anna and Elsa was HUGE.  Our friends waited in it and still didn't see them after 2 hours! Thanks goodness for boys who don't care about princesses.

Peter Pan was our FAVORITE character that we saw the whole time.  He WAS his character.  We saw him skipping around and teasing everyone.  He had a crooked smile and I am pretty sure he thought he was the read Peter Pan...maybe he was.

The Disney treats were so amazing, we couldn't leave without letting the boys pick one, It was the perfect ending to our awesome trip!

California Day 3- California Adventure

 We were pretty excited to go to California Adventure on our third day in Cali.  There were so many things that were different since we had been here last!  It was so fun to be with Grandma Ann, Aunt Lisa and Brianne and Marie.

 McKay was so excited to see Buzz, I love how he is looking at him in this picture.

 Disney is just so magical, I love that everything is perfection even down to the food there.

 Army men from Toy Story.

 I was so hesitant to go on the Grizzly Rapids (something like that) ride because the last time I had been on it was when Josh and I were on our honeymoon and we got soaked.  Some nice people gave us a few ponchos before we went on it, but it didn't keep us from still getting wet.  The day before had been so cold, we were lucky that this day was a lot warmer!

 We really didn't see too many characters, but the boys were excited to see Minnie Mouse.

One of the most exciting things that happened on our trip to Disneyland is that we met Brandon Mull.  He is the author of the Fablehaven series and we had just finished #1 as a family and Lincoln was on #2 and Palmer was on #3, so they were pretty star struck.

 Cars Land (not sure what it is really called), was one of our favorites for sure.  The new Cars ride had our longest line of the trip (50 minutes), but was definitely one of our favorite rides. 

 The last thing we did was see the World of Color water show, which was being built the last time we were here.  It was so amazing!

 Once again, McKay left exhausted (the rest of us were pretty spent as well), but it was that good tired where you had spent the day running from fun thing to fun thing and were excited to start it all over again the next day!